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John White returned to Roanoke with more English colonists to find the settlement deserted. The settlers there may have moved on or been attacked by American Indians, but their fate was never confirmed, leaving Roanoke’s abandonment a mystery.

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Native American populations in New England, with no immunity to European diseases, were nearly eradicated by a mysterious epidemic—likely smallpox. Between 1616 and 1619, the population of the Massachusett and other Algonquin tribes was reduced by as much as 90 percent by disease.